skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How the heck is "impaired" offensive but "hard of" not offensive.

Let's see what the national association of the deaf says. "The term focuses on what people can’t do. It establishes the standard as “hearing” and anything different as “impaired,” or substandard, hindered, or damaged."

By what interpretation of words does "hard of" not do the exact same thing. Did I miss an important evolution of English again?

Edit: Looked some more. NCDS is fine with "hearing impaired" but says that some people object. Then I found this page http://www.deaflinx.com/DeafCommunity/identity.html Its objection to "hearing impaired" is the mere fact that it ignores people's culture/identity choices wrt the Deaf community. This reasoning reminds me of the insular sub-community of the deaf that tries to push 'Deaf Culture' so strongly that they can be against fixing people's ability to hear; people that will make 'Deaf' their very identity. To be honest I don't care what those people find offensive.

But if you have a better reasoning than those people I am ready and willing to learn and accept it.
One thing that always surprises me is how many people take offense to the suggestion to make their software/websites more accessible, as if it's trampling on their artistic freedom. Even here on enlightened HN, the top-most comment seems to worry about some "Orwellian" future where non-accessible websites are verboten.

I prefer to look at making things accessible in two more positive ways:

1. It's a challenge; any designer can slap together a slick looking website. It takes thought and creativity (and research) to make an interface that is inherently flexible and usable by just about anyone.

2. Sure, you might scoff at the market possibilities today (seven percent? who cares!). But as life expectancy goes up, so do the numbers with disability, and the longer someone is alive, the more money they are likely to have. Reap those baby boomers! (cynical, yes; but this is business after all).
101K - 250K
Jolla set to launch its MeeGo-Based OS "Sailfish" in November
CPU time on Linode is cheaper than standard-priced EC2 instances. Compared to a reserved instance they lose badly, though. And last I checked, storage on Linode was 8x higher than EBS.
>You have the users, the money, the connections and the engineering talent. So what's the problem?

Assuming you're looking beyond the simple answer (because they 're not selling a product/service the majority of their user-base will purchase), I'd say they suffer from the lack of agility. Facebook's size increases their effort to implement even the simplest of changes. We've seen how fickle those users are about little changes and future ones could affect the group in negative and unintended ways. I'm sure every change is examined to death before implementation. In contrast, a start-up making changes might lose their early adopters, but could gain orders of magnitude more users because of that change. Facebook, however, already has the user-base. Facebook needs to keep them happy and drastically changing things in the name of profit would probably send people running. Of course not everyone will run and profit might increase, but those changes would have to be time consuming just from an implementation standpoint given their size and now being publicly traded the desire to keep the investors happy.
Litepanels may ban all LED lights from the market
More than 250K
Sadly, a great many people in this world do not think as you do.
Why can't they just use nuclear power? Didn't the viking probes from the 70's use that? I might be wrong, but I thought that curiosity actually did use nuclear.
We store all the code and everything that changes in a Ram disk, so really fast.

The virtual machine lies on EBS, but it is really fast to start and performance is not limited by EBS at all in our case.
Then only count them when they visit Facebook. There is absolutely no reason to count them when they are on any other website unless you want to artificially inflate your monthly actives.
Coming Soon: Fonts from Monotype Imaging
Publishers and Google Reach Agreement
These people are from poor countries like India , Pakistan , Nigeria etc.

They probably imagine you as some affluent white guy with servants and sports cars who wouldn't miss a few K from his bank account.
It's not. Dead posts are moreso on mobile.

HN as a whole on mobile is a somewhat miserable experience.
I'm feeling lucky: Why is Google search so fast?
Which is exactly the case in our environment. As soon as all libraries are loaded from EBS IO is not that much of an issue any more
I suspect COBOL got this "right"...

In C#, (0.3m - 0.2m) == (0.2m - 0.1m). The latest version of the C++ spec allows for user-defined literals, so you could do something similar there (with caveats). But as far as I know, there's no modern language in widespread use that has decimal literals which default to base-ten representations.
there was indeed a bug in search where you can't search by post code, but it should work now.
The complete list of companies are mentioned in FTC website along with the complaints and restraining order
http://www.ftc.gov/os/caselist/1223247/index.shtm
here's a more recent rant: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/pull/17#issuecomment-56599...
Agreed -- another question I have is how much $ they keep. If they're only keeping 20% or so and the maid is able to earn $36/hr, then that's a big incentive to stay in-system for sure. Also to your point, if they build in the features to allow for recurring arrangements with a "preferred" maid and truly give the maid a business-management system (i.e. tax prep help, income reports, etc.), then that's further incentive to do so.
Tim, co-founder of matchist here. Just to clarify, we vet both talent and clients.
Can't we get an umbrella-PC term, like "Impaired ability to process and respond to audio data"?
Can I get a referral?
And do you still log into those accounts every month?
Didn't it just automatically update the field?
No matter what you do, you should absolutely be asking yourself "do I want to still be doing this in N years?".

It isn't just a matter of trying to have a fulfilling life -- it's a matter of survival. People who don't look up once in a while and consider their larger place are the people who get steamrolled when a new technology kills their entire industry.
Seems ripe for another company to come in and pick up where Feedburner left off.
Yeah sure, shoot me an email and we can grab a beer sometime.
No, he isn't. He's the final gatekeeper but there are several of lower level gatekeepers/maintainers for different parts.

At least according to rumors, I've never invested the time to get involved myself.
Nope, although after researching the space and working on the product, we did hear about it. We got the inspiration from having a kafkaesque experience trying to find and book a maid in NYC.
The art of getting stuff done without bossing around
Everyone has an interesting story to tell and our world ought to celebrate normal people more than it does. Storylane is a brilliant combination of the two. Love it
I'm not sure why you would suggest comparing it to cable, I can't imagine up any way that could make a reasonable or useful analogy. It may well be an impressive number, but nobody asked if it was impressive, they asked if facebook lies about their numbers.
I remember we had that turtle system (logo?) in third grade.

I never once realized I was programming! I thought it was just a dumb game to make a turtle move. And I remember always wishing I could learn how to program a computer at that age. If they had told me that's what I was doing I probably would have been more interested.

I guess the moral is to not abstract too much of the system from the child. Maybe they want to see variables, and print statements.
In a traditional relationship, sure. But with these P2P Uber-like systems, I'm not sure that the consumer is convinced of that -- they're likely to say "that Get Maid person was slow. Not using the service again."
> Notice that they are saying "Windows support" not "Microsoft Support", not knowing that Windows is a product from Microsoft would suggest they are looking for people with a very low level of knowledge.

They do this to avoid being cornered. On one occasion, when screwing with one of the callers, I had a little rage fit accusing them of breaking all kinds of laws. The "manager" informed me that "We never claimed that we were calling from Microsoft, we're calling from Windows Tech Support, which is the name of our company." The agents are very careful not to say they're calling from Microsoft. I suspect that this is some attempt at circumventing exposure to local fraud laws wherever they are based. I'm not saying it will be effective, mind you; just that I suspect that's why.
when i last used ec2, it was almost exclusively for async backend processes. in those cases, high throughput is important, but latency is not a factor in the same way. If there's a 300ms delay talking to the system from the outside world, it's no big deal.

that said, netflix seems to have solved the IO issue with ec2. I'd be curious to know more about their findings.
How to sell a Digital Comic (to me): Don't use DRM.

I'll buy the fuck out of Digital Comics if I have some reasonable assurance that I'll get to keep those files forever. I feel super, super hesitant on buying any digital media with DRM these days, even from major players. I do buy a few TV shows, but I internally rationalize that it's roughly equivalent to a cable subscription (which I don't have) and in the meantime, those particular digital purchases act sort of like a DVR.

I bought one movie and its sitting in the menu list, taunting me, telling me that I'll never have access to it in a few years time. Not doing that again.
I bet you've been eagerly awaiting the moment when you could bring up Homestuck and the Kickstarter on HN...unfortunately, you didn't read the article and jumped the gun.
4 things you can learn from the Segway fail
Is your main goal to retire?

If you want to build big things, in most cases you can't work alone. In a big team, everyone plays a part. Call them a "cog" if you want.

And, sometimes the specialization that happens in big teams allows people (err...cogs) to really push the state of the art by engaging one hard problem for a long time.
I checked in Go (golang). Verbatim, it's false. But if I save at least one side of the equality to a variable, or cast at least one side to a float, it's true.
Where there be users, there be marketers.
It has nothing to do with facts. It is which facts you are interested in.

If you talk about Tesla having created some jobs, fine, then it is a success. If you are talking about Tesla not even selling 10000 cars per year, and are used to "regular" car industry sales numbers, it is a joke.

The idea of absolute truth in politics is questionable. You will in almost all cases find a way to show that the guy you don't like is wrong and the guy you like is right.
That's a single, corrupt organization which hasn't handled a consumer case since July 2009. Over 3 years ago.
Yup, you can use invite code "GMHN" to sign up and get $20 off your first clean.
YieldMetrics Brings Radical Transparency to Online Advertising
Things to Consider When Starting a Business in a Down Economy
Unfortunately she's so good that she's not taking new jobs right now! I tried to get her setup with a friend and she politely declined. Makes me happy that she's fully-booked and making a good living from it.
Ask HN: What steps are mobile devs taking to prep for the holiday season?
With all of the devices bought/ apps downloaded in the next few months, what do you guys do to prepare?

Also does anyone know more about the app store freeze for this year?
Where Brett Victor's "Learnable Programming" got it wrong
Are there any competitors in this market left? What are the key functionalities people are looking for/going to miss from feedburner? Would people PAY for these tools?
Is DC really worth $97 quarterly?
Microsoft Acquires PhoneFactor
Practically all VC invests this way; it's the model.
Evasive action: How The Pirate Bay four dodged Swedish justice—for a while
I admittedly don't use Feedburner daily but I completely understand why keeping Feedburner is a good move. It's holding up the open RSS standard and a lot of people rely on it as a service. If Google doesn't want it, they should either sell it. Which admittedly they'll never do or open source it.
Good point but I think for children as young as 5 the RoboMind system works very well. Most kids struggle to read/write at that age and a true programming language would probably be a bit of a struggle.
Wow, they tried to jack everything about The Oatmeal's style, but did a poor job of it.

Love feedburner, but you have to wonder why they couldn't be themselves.
Not many people like you do, but reading a blog or magazine is not regulated to scene-obsessed teenagers. Moreover these so called scene obsessed readers contribute to the majority of sales. Comic book fans represent the majority that count in this case not the occasional reader with not time for your so called comic book scene. To illustrate outsiders may think HN readers are tech obsessed minority, when compared to general population they are, but the traffic HN readers can provide is significant to a tech based startup.
Strategies for Increasing Profitability
It’s a good explanation of how hex colour codes work, but in this day and age it's so much simpler to use (and think in) rgb(n, n, n) notation. Not to mention the hsl(n, n%, n%) notation that is supported by modern browsers.
Unfortunately I don't share this absurd view that all "apps are bad mmkay?"

Some of the games are fun, and some of the apps are useful.
Seems like they tested in Portland in the morning and then tried it out on the Bay. My money is on it this feature being made available most places within a year.
Copywriting for Geeks - Learn to sell your stuff with words
From what I understand, Stripe is pretty highly regarded as a payment alternative (at least if you're lucky enough to live in a supported country).
I also have a real problem with them referring to the second digit from the right as the "tens place", considering it's actually base sixteen...
Yes, more than ever, startups are ok with people without CS degrees or degrees altogether for that matter. There are always the startups that will have a bias toward Ivy League and top tier only comp sci, but those are generally run by biz focused ppl vs techies. It is easier in the beginning of your career to get hired without a CS degree, b/c the general quality is lesser than good startups and the headcount demands are higher. It is nearly impossible at big firms to get hired early in your career w/o a degree b/c the gatekeepers are not technical and have no understanding what they are looking at on a resume. If you have a degree in Math, Physics, Statistics or something else quantitative, it is not that difficult, but if you have an english degree or music that could pose a bigger challenge. This is my perspective as a headhunter supporting everything from small startup to enterprise firms. Just my 2cents
That is something that concerns me as well. I don't know what Comixology's DRM technologies are, or if they even have any. I haven't looked, but it would be nice to know that I can export those books that I have paid for to another DRM free format, like PDF.
Hogwash. You can’t even start a new bank on bankers hours much less spaceship company, or more prosaically a restaurant.

Companies are founded on the time and passion of their earliest members.

Obviously burnout is a problem from day one, and the trick to building a company for the long haul is to move from zero to a monetarily sustainable enterprise while at the same time moving from insane hours to viable ones, and to do it fast enough that you don’t burnout the whole company before you get there. It’s not an easy trick.
Why we love supporting our Android users
Founders, teach your employees statistics
"This video has been removed as a violation of YouTube's policy on depiction of harmful activities.
Sorry about that."
Methinks this is personal army type of stuff, not much to see here.
Nokia Startups Mistake #2 – The Freerider Issue
I think it's important to understand the difference between hacking the problem versus hacking the solution. One will get you to product market fit while the other will get you to your minimum viable product. Reminds me of the old Zappos story where they would actually purchase the shoes from Foot Locker and shop those out.
There will be something in the middle proxying between the attacker and your computer, to get through NAT.

Regards reverse engineering, you would have to grab packet information from your memory before it hits SSL. Not sure how the spoof detection works. I'm sure these protocols have been reverse engineered before.

Regards what I'd do with it, really not sure. I've never had these guys on the line for long enough to know much about how their scam works.

In practice it would probably be easier to just construct a VM in such a way that it makes whatever they are trying to do difficult in some amusing way, depends on how much patience they have I guess.
Sweden's Newest School Has No Class Rooms
"goog luck"

Great Fredudian typo, or greatest Freudian typo?
Oddly Javascript does. Probably more oddly I don't get why that's "right"
Fact, strangely, is loaded. Romney brought up Tesla as a negative investment in green energy. Obama holds them, or what they're doing, as an archetype of the new "American way" forward (even though they aren't breaking auto sales records). If that were explained, tweet sized, the viewer could have a better understanding of the rhetoric.

Real-time that and i believe you'd have something
There are two very nice programs on the iPad which my 4yo likes:

Move the Turtle
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/move-turtle.-programming-for/... ($2.99)

Similar to the Logo programming language another commenter mentions. Starts simple, but goes into loop solutions a little too quick.

Cargo Bot (free!)
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/cargo-bot/id519690804?mt=8

Cargo Bot is much more visual, little or no text, but I think they dive into recursion much too fast (for 3 star solutions that is).

Bee Bot (free!)
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/bee-bot/id500131639?mt=8

Just discovered, also for the really little ones. No comments yet.
Err---that would be Marion Zimmer Bradley (see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marion_Zimmer_Bradley), not Lovecraft. It's possible she got it from "The King in Yellow" usually referred to as 'The Yellow Book', but not know for sure. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_King_in_Yellow
I have been programming for 10+ years professionally (not counting those 'Hello world' days in school), and I need to admit the OP hit the nail at its head. Yes, I still believe programming is fun, problem solving is fun, and solving a hardcore problem is fun. But putting all these in the context of a tight deadline, management who has no clue about technology, and changing requirements, I really am tired to pull the miracle off by working my ass off.

A quick glance through the posts here reviews a lot of folks here have better luck and it is a good thing. To put things in perspective, I have been working in Asia Pac and now in China. Now I am in the business dev turf where a technical background is proven useful.
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2 questions:

1. Is it not possible to schedule one using the website? I'm too lazy to download an app and 3G at my office is terrible.

2. If the maid steals something, can I file a claim with you?
> Coming Soon: Fonts ...

Great -- another effort to turn something that's until now been free, into a paid product.

Stay tuned for the first effort to claim proprietary ownership over a large class of fonts that have until now been free, or worse, a "Look & Feel" lawsuit about competing fonts that aren't distinguishable to the eye of a trained observer.

This is likely to be like icons all over again -- are icons property? Legally, yes and no. How about square boxes with round corners?

More to the point, will people actually choose to buy fonts when equivalent fonts are available in the public domain? A business like this can only prevail by suing anyone willing to give away products that resemble theirs. Like Apple is doing now. Like Microsoft did years ago.
How to interview somebody for a job requiring to work under severe stress?
Am I the only one that is getting annoyed by this "Look what an amazing thing we obtained doing a very little thing in a very little time"? Can we stop it please? You make hacking look like a child's game and also I think you all miss the point with your posts, as my parent pointed out. If you really want some traffic to your site, because that's the only thing you are trying to get with this posts, please share some actually interesting article.
No hard feelings.

It's just uncomfortable for people to see their _elected_ leader demonized along with Hitler and mass murderers, especially if said leaders just concern themselves with their own, sovereign country, business.

Doubly so in a region where foreign invasion and intervention has started many dictatorships and cost many casualties.

It's not Chavez that did this:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/29/guatemala-experimen...

Or this:
http://www.alternet.org/world/us-funded-death-squads-el-salv...
Romney wins the Debate: Social Report by Sysomos
PS I see more listed here (should have searched for those two names before posting)

http://www.techwithintent.com/2012/07/5-best-ipad-apps-to-te...

A longer list with resources for older kids:

http://breakoutmentors.com/kids-programming-resources/
It's OK, one day you will get over your insecurities and inferiority complexes, and not fear people who are capable and comfortable of working on a team.
Nice work! So my question is where did you get the text to analyze?
I just tried out codility since I love tests.

It is easy ... the test took under 20 minutes, about half of which I spent understanding the totally artificial logic of the problem (+1 for realism) and the other half I spent fixing the three very basic mistakes I made in a ten line function (1: order of operations mistake, 2: forgot to break out of loop, 3: forgot to "continue" to avoid rest of loop.)

I didn't even think about performance since I thought they were bluffing but they do actually measure it. You can see my results here: http://codility.com/cert/view/certEF9FPJ-USWZ7H5WCSMSBNQX/de...

I'd say this type of test is absolutely reasonable and a time saver. Rather than spend 20 minutes doing a binary search or whatever on a screen share at a certain time that you have to plan your day around I think this actually saves time for both parties.
It's not hard to find a technical cofounder. It's hard to find a pedigreed cofounder.

Instead of trying to recruit someone who can walk in the door at an SFBA company at 150k, instead start getting drinks with a few people like that and leverage them to help gauge promising up-and-comers --- people just coming out of school, or, better, people hoping to make a transition from ops (administration, network engineering, &c) to development.
My wife has an iPad 3, but I have a Nexus 7, any similar tools for that? Anyone?
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I'm still new-ish to git and don't get why rebase is popular. If I do my work on a branch B, I can merge this branch into the master M. The merge point will have a succinct message "Bug Fix #1". You can print the history so it only shows these merge messages and not the messy history in the branches. Isn't this the same as rebase? That is, rebase removes the messy branch history. But I'd prefer to keep that history, but rarely use or display it. bisect can also ignore those branches and only use the merge points. Saving the branch history shouldn't be problem. What am I missing?